While the Fandom Princess and the Prince were out on a stroll one Saturday afternoon, Ghost decided to stay inside and out of the cold. He instead walked around the castle, and came upon a corridor where the dungeon dwarves that cleaned the castle had left him a pile of treats. He sat down and was just about to indulge in the large bones when he heard a small meow. Ghost’s ears perked up and he turned to the source of the noise. He saw nothing, but decided to investigate anyway. As he neared the door from where he thought the noise had come from, he heard the clank of a plate. Swiftly, Ghost turned his head back towards his treats, only to find Glimmer, one of the professor’s cats, stuffing the treats down her throat. She hissed at Ghost, to which Ghost growled, and the chase began.
Alright, so continuing on from my previous post about The Matrix, I did a little research on some of the interesting tidbits that went down with making this film. I checked out one of my favorite movie sources, IMBD, and looked in the trivia section! The three things that I found most interesting about the filming of this movie were:
1. Everyone loves those awesome Matrix glasses, like in this picture: 
It’s almost like a cannon now, right? Well, check this out – The iconic sunglasses worn by the Matrix characters are from the cult-ish label Blinde, which prides itself on producing handmade glasses. The company’s founder, ‘Richard Walker’ (IV), had to tender against large companies such as Ray-Ban and Arnette to win the film’s sunglasses contract, and set himself apart by scratch-designing pairs of glasses based purely on the characters’ unusual names. When his tender was successful, Walker was flown into Sydney where he spent the duration of the Matrix shoot custom-designing sunglasses for the cast in the back of an Oxford Street optometrist.
2. All the color blue was sucked out of the exterior shots to convey how grim the world of the Matrix actually is.
3. The name of Morpheus’ ship, the Nebuchadnezzar, is a Biblical reference to King Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon, from the biblical Book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar (‘the Great’) was famous for his conquests of Israel in Biblical times (specifically Judah and Jerusalem). He also built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the lost Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) for his wife. He has a dream he can’t remember but keeps searching for an answer, in Daniel 2:1-49.
I think the behind the scenes things about movies are just as interesting as the movie. It’s kind of like our way of looking into the director’s or filmmakers thought process. They had to analyze everything, even down to the color scheme in the movie or the naming of certain people or things. I think it’s super compelling stuff, possibly because this is the same amount of thought that goes into my writing, but I think it’s really neat to know about the stuff that the filmmakers are thinking about when making a movie.
The Matrix is definitely classified as sci-fi in terms of genre, as it has many of the sci-fi movie elements listed here.
We also had to do a montage from of clips from the same movie, to get our fingers warm with using MPEG-Streamclip! I picked the following videos and then trimmed them down to make it a short little montage:
And here is my completed product:
Pretty swanky, huh?
